• Since the mid-1980s, Australia has been the world’s largest producer of Diamonds. Diamonds from the Argyle Mine (Argyle Diamonds) in Western Australia represent about one third of the world’s output.
• Romans believed that Diamonds had the power to ward off evil and wore them as talismans. They inherited this belief from Indian mythology.
• A law in thirteenth-century France decreed that only the king could wear diamonds.
• The largest rough diamond ever found was the Cullinan, 3,106 carats, discovered on January 26, 1905 in the Premier mine of South Africa. It was cut into nine major stones, including the largest gem diamond, the Cullinan 1, or Star of Africa, 550.20 carats. This is mounted in the British Royal Scepter and housed in the Tower of London.
  

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